Free State Project Member Shot in Fight That Began Over Its Porcupine Flag

A bizarre and disconcerting bit of politically motivated violence, which happened on November 5 pre-election but just came to my attention today: Jarrod Ean-Dixon, a participant in New Hampshire’s Free State Project (FSP), was shot multiple times during a conflict that began over a group of people including Michael Sirois, who allegedly shot Ean-Dixon, objecting to the Project’s Porcupine flag (pictured below).

Ean-Dixon’s family, in a web site dedicated to the incident, says that the 36-year-old father of three is “healing well considering his grave injuries.” (One of his sons witnessed the shooting.)

Police have said the dispute was over the use of a porcupine on a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, rather than the traditional curled snake. Police have said Sirois believed the porcupine was a desecration of the flag.

A woman, Kasondra Williams, who fled with the shooter and his other violent friend, Jason Gerry, who had punched Ean-Dixon, was also shot in the incident, apparently accidentally.